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secondcumming

HOW THE ‘OTHER HALF’ LIVE……I mean, fuck me

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12209935
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March 7, 2019 8:04am
- Maggie Pie
  
  “the homes main selling point is the location”
  silly me – i thort it might be the designer interoir 🙂
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:11am
- Jules99
  
  It’s quite funny to read the story which completely jars with the pictures. You can’t hide your lyin eyes.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:14am
- Huevon
  
  Built when NZ had a genuine housing crisis, not when Jacinda thinks junior doctors and their current boyfriends need a state subsidised 4 bedroom Mcmansion…
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:48am
- KiWombat
  
  Kiwibuild anybody?
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:58am
- Stephen James
  
  Are they actually proud of being such slobs?
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:14am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    He’ll be laughing all the way to the bank then back to the Cook Islands, once it’sold.
    
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    March 7, 2019 11:39am
  - Komata
    
    SJ @11.14:
    
    Actually, yes, (at least the grandparents were), cos it was THEIRS, something very difficult to achieve back in the islands.
    
    Not sure about the current owner though, he seems disinclined to do the work himself and, perhaps typically, is thinking very short-term (the ready money), rather than enrtering into a lease agreenent with a developer which would see a continuing income stream.
    
    BTW, ased on personal observation of a similar episode within my own family, it’s not actually very unusual for this to happen, with the immediate availability of millions of dollars being a very persuasive argument for selling such a family home.
    
    What is not considered is that, with the family home now sold, a replacement dwelling (or dwellings) has to be found and purchased, while the proceeds of the sale, after being ‘shared’ amongst family and ‘hangers-on’ is actually very small and quickly spent…
    
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    March 7, 2019 11:44am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Probably paid about 5k for it and now its worth 1.8m
  That’s about 600k in rich prick tax.
  
  Or about one Tax Working Group with extra Cullen and no fries.
  
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  March 7, 2019 1:50pm
  - Tall Man
    
    How about a couple of “Goldies” for the back wall, real or otherwise….
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:47pm
hullkiwi

To coincide with International Women’s Day, Women’s Day has published a list of 10 Inspirational NZ Women. I’ve taken the link from MSN. However, what has really got Mrs HK worked up is the list itself.

The list is anything but, a list of Inspirational Women, in fact as Mrs HK put it, it is insulting to women to suggest that some of the women on the list are inspirational.

In the list of 10 women there is only two inspirational women, being Kate Shepard and Valarie Adams and at a push Helen Clark. The rest of the list appears to reflect the intelligence level of your average 38 year old Twitter/Facebook/Instagram user from Morrinsville.
The list comprises the likes of the SLG, Hilary Barry, Paula Bennett and Rachael Hunter.
There is no mention of women like Dame Whena Cooper, or Jean Batten or Kate Edgar or Alison Roe, Yvette Williams or Dame Sylvia Cartwright or Dame Sian Ellias or Dame Kiri TeKanawa and other leading women who have excelled in a number of different aspects of life.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/lifestyle/familyandrelationships/your-top-10-inspirational-new-zealand-women-role-models-revealed/ar-BBUqdnh?ocid=spartandhp
With this sort of tripe, you realise the MSM are being used by Labour’s PR spinmeisters to keep alive Jacindamania.
Just as well she had another bad day in the house yesterday. What’s the bet Peters will be in the hot seat next week?
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March 7, 2019 8:06am
- slightlyrighty
  
  No mention of Nancy Wake either.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:13am
  - G152
    
    Or Helen Fitton New Zealands second Commercial Pilot
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:25am
    - lifesgood
      
      Or Sister Mary Leo
      
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      March 7, 2019 8:43am
      - ztev
        
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        dead people …yeah that will sell more copies..
        
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        March 7, 2019 8:57am
      - SGA
        
        Or Fran Walsh.
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:12am
      - graham
        
        So because Jean Batten is no longer with us, that somehow minimises her achievements ztev?
        
        Muppet.
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:36am
      - Lance
        
        ztev never fails to be completely obnoxious.
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:47am
      - Longknives
        
        No Lisa Lewis either..
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:52am
      - alwyn
        
        Actually ztev knows all about dead people.
        He is one of New Zealand’s few members of the walking dead.
        Meet ztev the Zombie.
        “A zombie is an undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works such as propaganda for the New Zealand Labour Government”.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:51am
- kowtow
  
  The MSM are Labour’s spinmeisters.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:20am
- MCos
  
  Paula Bennett is hardly there to ‘keep alive Jacindamania’.
  Hilary Barry, Anika Moa & Toni Street all appeal to many people, but they probably make it on to lists such as this because they’re mates whoever wrote the article.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:25am
  - Tarquin North
    
    Anyone who finds Anika Moa or Hilary Barry appealing should seek professional help immediately.
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:35am
    - lilman
      
      Barry,I’ve seen more intelligent NZF voters than her.
      
      Morons the lot.
      
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      March 7, 2019 12:41pm
  - ztev
    
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    So what …they write about women from a certain demographic….. not old and dead ones.
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:36am
    - hullkiwi
      
      ztev…wakey, wakey….
      
      Kate Shepard was included in the list..
      
      Unless NZ has found a way of bringing people back from the dead, You’ll find there is not much to look at, as she died in 1934.
      
      You had better turn on google or as the SLG put it “learn to read Wikipedia”
      
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      March 7, 2019 8:43am
      - SGA
        
        It would be hard to leave Kate Shepard off the list given she’s on the $10 note, so they probably had to make an exception in her case to give the list any air of credibility. 🙂
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:04am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Yes SGA, but a pop quiz in the streets asking people to name the people on NZ notes would reveal that most wouldn’t even know there was a women from the 19th/20th Centuries on the $10 note.
        
        PS. Yes, mikey and ztev I do know who the people on all the notes are without looking it up.
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:58am
      - SGA
        
        @hullkiwi
        Maybe, but I suspect that at least a sizeable minority would.
        It would be a interesting and fun experiment to ask random people to name three people, say, on NZ bank notes and see what the most common responses were. I wonder what names you’d get of people who weren’t actually on the notes 🙂
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:59am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Kate Sheppard and Valerie Adams are the only women that I would ascribe the term inspiring that appear on that list.
      
      I’d have included the likes of Lisa Carrington and Jane Campion.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:51am
      - hullkiwi
        
        SR, I agree as I wrote in the original post, and as you and others above have pointed out there are many, many others who are truly inspirational.
        
        As I have pointed out to zdivvy and mikey the key words were “Inspirational New Zealand Women”. If, it was a genuine effort to honour inspirational New Zealand women it would not have been an exercise in naming women I “could chose to follow” on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:07am
      - Stephen James
        
        Valerie Adams? Really? Big ape she is. Give me Lisa Carrington any day.
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:18am
- MT_Tinman
  
  I’m not completely sure the harridan should not be on the list.
  
  After all it is proving, conclusively according to recent polls, that you can fool approx half the people all the time.
  
  The undeniable fact that the sheila is unfit for purpose seems superfluous to this discussion.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:34am
- Dave Mann
  
  Remind me again of the details…. when is Men’s day and how is it celebrated…?
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    Free beer and a bit of fingering at labour youth camp.
    
    Hang on, maybe that was “steffy” day…
    
    Look, we have so much being offered to us by the current world it’s just too hard to quantify…….
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:56am
- Gravelroad
  
  Hilary Barry? What the hell is inspirational about Hilary Barry? She giggles, she cries, she judges, she self promotes as a “journalist”.
  This list cannot be taken seriously because the following two words explain its derivation: Woman’s Day
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:54am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Headline should be:
  ‘Kiwiblog moron upset with magazine’s choice of subjects likely to appeal to readers of women’s magazines’
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:09am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Mikey, you are as disengenuous as zdiv. There is nothing genuine about that list.
    
    The key words are “10 Inspirational New Zealand Women”
    
    Given, the title and the content of the list, it is a fair guess that the list was written by a Labour spinmeister and given to Women’s Day to publish/fill space. It is all about keeping brand Jacinda alive, not about highlighting inspirational Kiwi women, of which there are many.
    
    So, go and do us all a favour and go and tell Dave Cormack that his PR efforts for PriNZess this week have not been worth the money Labour are paying him.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:41am
  - graham
    
    Well of course. Because nowadays we realise (and are endlessly lectured to) that women are as good as men, as capable as men, as smart as men, as clever as men, as proficient, intelligent, reasonable, etc.
    
    So to patronise them with this sort of rubbish is demeaning, and as a modern man I am OFFENDED on behalf of all women.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:42am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Celia Lashlie
  
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  March 7, 2019 1:54pm
  - Tall Man
    
    She was certainly a woman of great merit.
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:45pm
- dime
  
  lol can they stop trying to make hillary barry a thing? its not going to happen.
  
  remember when barry tried to pass the torch (that she never had) of mother of the nation to momo? HAHAHA fuck me
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:08pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

So sad to see the once mighty Winston defending Tooth Fairy and the CoL that they have business experience. At least he is being extremely loyal to the CoL and looks like CoL won’t collapse anytime sooner.
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March 7, 2019 8:07am
- sooty
  
  He has to do the kiddy minding to look after his baubles!
  No arselicking, no baubles!
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:21am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  That loyalty should be a klaxon to the Winston First voters next time around.
  
  “Keeping them honest” my arse….
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:25am
- Ross12
  
  He might be worried the spot light for the issue might turn on him.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:14am
- alloytoo
  
  He made a very interesting comments:
  
  From Hansard:
  Rt Hon Winston Peters: If any owner, Māori or otherwise, was holding land in trusteeship for future generations, how could a capital gains tax possibly apply when they do not intend to benefit from any capital gains themselves?
  
  Isn’t this an instruction to put everything in a trust.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:52am
Keeping Stock

Regional Facilities Auckland is an unelected bureaucracy controlling, among other things, Auckland’s stadiums.

RFA has long wanted to get rid of speedway from Western Springs, and a new facility at Colin Dale Park out by the airport was proposed. But that’s all it is at the moment; a proposal, years away from completion.

In the meantime, RFA has refused to renew speedway’s lease at Western Springs, and the meeting on Saturday 16th April will end 90 years of racing at the spiritual home of New Zealand speedway. The venue is respected throughout the speedway world, and has provided entertainment for generations of Kiwis.

Please consider signing this petition to Phil Goff, asking for him and his council to intervene and overrule RFA. If the closure of Western Springs goes ahead next Saturday, there’s a real possibility that open wheel speedway will be lost to Auckland forever.

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-phil-goff-keep-western-springs-speedway-open
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March 7, 2019 8:08am
- alex Masterley
  
  None of Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, ATEED, RFA and Panuku could find their collective arses with both hands.
  They seem to have a gift for screwing even the simplest things up.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:32am
- ztev
  
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  Its seems like they are giving the current promoter the arse card…as the facilities there are publically owned there may be another promoter ready to fill in next year or 2.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:39am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    ztev – the lease expires after Saturday 16th March, and to the best of my knowledge, there is not “another promoter ready to fill in”. Bill Buckley has poured millions of dollars of his own money into the facility; check out this letter he wrote to Goff and others yesterday, which he has shared via the Springs Speedway website.
    
    https://springsspeedway.com/letter-to-council/?fbclid=IwAR1nNhHPVwu6fTAfRCZZ6tiOG74jk4Hr2Dzyzo0AoAPvMN4AeylrwB0pxAA
    
    These paragraphs are especially insightful:
    
    This entire situation had arisen due to the Auckland Council needing to step in to resolve an impasse between Springs Promotions Limited and Regional Facilities Auckland. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Friday 8th June 2018 between the Auckland Council, SPL and RFA, whereby the intent from Auckland Council was to find Open Wheel Speedway a permanent home in Auckland.
    
    Since the signing of this MOU, the Auckland Council has become divided in its support and seems to have not put the energy and commitment into Speedway which it deserves. This has led to the RFA taking back control as you and your subordinates have folded and not retained control of the city. Yesterday Paul Nisbet (RFA) announced that the race meeting scheduled for the 16th March 2019 will be the last for Speedway at the venue and that will be no extensions of the current Venue Hire Agreement held by SPL. The first that I knew of that announcement was through the media.
    
    Future discussions are to be had around who is going to run Open Wheel Speedway in Auckland which now need to be put to one side, the priority must now be to stop the RFA ending this 90-year old sport.
    
    We are now demanding to remain at Western Springs until a permanent solution can be found.
    
    To date we have played by your rules, based on the fact that the three parties were in agreement as described by the MOU, which I support along with my competitors. To then find you propose to go in a different direction without consultation is disgraceful.
    
    Phil, you need to front up to this and take control of the RFA who have little or no regard for any of the 90-year history this sport and venue provides. But this isn’t just about speedway – it’s about all the sports and activities and venues controlled and affected by RFA and that the ratepayers of Auckland voted for a Mayor and Councillors, but that Auckland City seems to be controlled by RFA, not the other way around.
    
    Who controls Auckland? The Mayor and Council, or an unelected bureaucracy such as RFA. Goff really needs to front-foot this and respond today, or risk a massive backlash at the ballot box later in the year. He would be exceedingly unwise to underestimate the depth of feeling from the speedway community.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:37am
    - secondcumming
      
      One of the spokesmen for the Speedway on ZB this morning was a bloke by the name of *Aaron Drever*.
      Is that the same Aaron Drever?
      
      Asking for a friend…..
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:09am
      - alex Masterley
        
        Yup, one and the same. Sadly.
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:04am
      - Swifty
        
        We’ve sort of stopped going to the Fish and Chippery because he’s been manning the counter.
        
        Great place, been going there for the three years we’ve been in Avondale, but I was unaware of the connection.
        
        I was last up there with the kids several months ago and thought I recognised him from somewhere, and then he starts up at me about speedway and how he’s a race caller etc etc.
        
        I then clicked.
        
        Currently it’s not in me to give him my money. A pity. Everyone else there is great.
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:49am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Oh god, not change for changes sake again?
    
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    March 7, 2019 11:26am
- tf78
  
  Signed – just on principle.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:48am
holysheet

Good to see the maori caucus has it’s priorties right. They are having a look at why pharmac are not funding cancer drugs like they are expected to do.
Fuck me they are thick.
If Liarbors maori had not put their hands out and demanded more funding for all the things they want to waste taxpayers money on, THEN PHARMAC WOULD HAVE MORE MONEY FOR THESE DRUGS.

I can see another treaty claim coming on from them soon.
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March 7, 2019 8:08am
- sooty
  
  Yep! Drugs for special people!
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:22am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Special drugs”…..
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:59am
- DigNap15
  
  Its not fair.
  Many of them are on the dole or dpb so don’t pay taxes, yet they want more.
  Get off the couch!
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:32am
- kevn
  
  @holy… The nurses payrise came out of the Pharmac budget. Not out of the other multiple waster spending.
  Ask yourself… how come?
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:07am
Longknives

Just reading some Student comments on their big ‘Climate Change’ protest.
Can anyone tell me how ‘Ending Capitalism’ is somehow going to save the planet?
Do Communist/Socialist countries miraculously not pollute??
Seems to me these kids have been brainwashed somewhere- And this actually has nothing to do with the Environment whatsoever….
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March 7, 2019 8:08am
- srylands
  
  Eastern Europe used to be the champions of greenhouse gas emissions.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:16am
  - ztev
    
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    Now Eastern Europe is raking in the billions from countries like NZ.
    As they closed the communist era heavy industry they now have CO2 credits which they can sell to NZ.
    2016 Paris climate deal signed by NZ …and you know who… commits us to pay them $1.5 bill average per year for such baubles as CO2 certificates
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:43am
    - Pascal
      
      If you believe Ardern, who killed off an industry to virtue signal for worse environmental outcomes, would not have signed up to a non-binding deal you’re delusional.
      
      I’d still happily sell you a bridge though. But you’d probably want to waste taxpayer money on it and end up overpaying like so many stupid socialists.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:43am
      - ztev
        
        National government signed us up to Paris accord , and its legally binding.
        Thats why we have to pay ..or reduce CO2
        
        Exploration for oil/gas died out years ago when oil price tanked , explorers handed back their licenses
        
        Why does national want to pay so that we dont have reduce CO2….they are delusional as more oil and gas extraction increases CO2….did you not do arithmetic at primary school
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:56am
      - Pascal
        
        Nope. Parts are, such as reporting on progress, etc. but it’s quite limited.
        
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        March 7, 2019 1:26pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      ztev is actually right about this, the old Communist states were so polluting and inefficient that Germany for a start has coasted on their CO2 emissions requirements just by closing down East German industry and power plants.
      
      The point being that authoritarian states are typically very bad at controlling pollution of any sort – except political pollution – they’re typically very efficient in shutting down any one who disagrees with them.
      
      And it is/was a huge black mark on Key’s record that he was actually stupid enough to sign up for this scam.
      
      And just to add, it is 30 years now since the UN officially announced that we had just 11 years to deal with global warming or complete catastrophe would follow. So it is no surprise that many people find the latest “12 years to disaster” to be just more of the self serving same lies. It is just another attempt to implement a totalitarian regime.
      
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      March 7, 2019 12:45pm
- Jules99
  
  Yeah, cos, like, China is so clean and pristine, like. Of course they did sign the Paris agreement unlike the evil Trump in the US which has falling CO2 emissions.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:18am
  - G152
    
    Yup.
    Any day in Beijing without needing a mask is a rare event
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:29am
    - lifesgood
      
      Nope, I’ve just been there…perfect, clear, sunny days the whole time.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:04am
      - Tall Man
        
        Air pollution doesn’t always wave a big flag…unfortunately.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:01am
      - Ed Snack
        
        does depend on the weather and especially the wind. And Shanghai is typically a lot worse though you can get a good nearly clear day. Try Beijing on a cold, windless winter day though…
        
        However the actual pollutant level (and I mean real pollutants not CO2) is often very high even when it is nominally clear – particulate readings will be high as will NOx, O3, and other genuinely damaging contaminants.
        
        China has also said that it will have increasing CO2 output until approx 2035. Remember when that fuckwit Obama was pictured as having a great triumph getting the Chinese to agree to CO2 controls ? What was not said was that the agreement basically said the Chinese can do what they want until 2035 when they promise to try to reduce their output. And that was exactly what they had said before the “agreement”.
        
        As always, the virtue signalling and propaganda was the point, informing the hoi-polloi about the truth was unacceptable.
        
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        March 7, 2019 12:52pm
    - kevn
      
      @G152… The BJ Mayor has been ‘given instruction’ on reducing the city pollution. Electric transport is everywhere cars, bikes, busses. That is just one obvious element.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:10am
      - howzit
        
        And how do they create the electricity to charge the electric vehicles? Oh they burn coal just elsewhere in China. Clever trick that
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:53am
- KevOB
  
  Education? In most schools it’s indoctrination.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:25am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, like the first Weekly Broadcast (I kid you not, that is what it is called), included this little gem.
    
    “The school this year has introduced a zero waste policy. So, we ask you not to send your chilld’s lunch with plastic wrapping or in plastic bags.”
    
    Reality, it is not about adopting a zero waste policy, it is about saving money and reducing the number of Auckland Council/Northland Waste rubbish sacks they use. Each rubbish bag costs circa $2.30 each. So, the kids bring the rubbish home and it goes into our domestic rubbish bins
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:38am
    - Huevon
      
      Middle class moms go gaga over that no plastic shit. I expect more NZ children go to school with beeswax wrapped sammies than are made to do their homework….
      
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      March 7, 2019 8:52am
      - Ed Snack
        
        When I were a lad, we had plastic lunchboxes and waxed paper wrapping, fancy stuff like clingwrap was way in the future. Playgrounds did get a little littered with paper especially on windy days despite constant reminders not to litter.
        
        The problem I see is that ultimately, using paper is overall more polluting as paper has a pretty high environmental footprint. But I guess the point isn’t to reduce pollution is it, it is to signal one’s virtue to others.
        
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        March 7, 2019 12:59pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Council rubbish bags long gone down our way.
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:02am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Not so in the northern parts of Auckland SuperSh**y.
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:26am
      - Tall Man
        
        Well obviously Auckland doesn’t get as many “feelz” from ardern the liar then.
        
        Perhaps you guys have to go to “camp molestation” for those…
        
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        March 7, 2019 1:26pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      We had the same balderdash.
      
      Sandwiches etc got sent to school in reuseable containers. I’m cool with that.
      
      But here’s the thing:
      I’ve never seen any of them more than once.
      Keep looking in lost property (- which is full of drink bottles), but heaven knows where all my containers have gone.
      
      Now we use plastic bags which the kid keeps flinging in the rubbish. The ones I use for my lunch get re-used and thrown out once a week.
      
      If I hear a single word about taking a day off school to ‘care for the environment’ there’ll be words spoken no kid should hear.
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:07pm
- Komata
  
  LK@0808
  
  ‘Ending Capitalism’ huh?
  
  I wonder if any of these protestors realise that, were it NOT for ‘Capitalism’, and the actual money-paying work that their parent/s do, they probably wouldn’t be living in their nice houses in nice suburbs.
  
  Moet of them couldn’t define the word, but hey, it’s a day off school…
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:00pm
harvey wilson

Leaving Neverland

The shocking behind the scenes story of the 2018 Labour Party youth retreat. Featuring never seen before footage of underage children being plied with alcohol and shocking first hand testimony from victims throughout the years.

Here’s what critics had to say

“ but , but John Key pulled a waitresses hair!”

Ztev

“ Chris Bishop has a Snapchat account and didn’t actually do anything untoward, that’s the same thing right?”

Muttonbird
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March 7, 2019 8:08am
- ztev
  
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  Of course he didnt do anything… just the mothers were alarmed…silly them. after all they were 13 …thats grown up isnt it.. anyway silly mothers who read stories about goings on in parliament and stuff…nothing happened…and its deleted anyway
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:48am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Hahahaha. Actually the mothers said he did nothing untoward . But hey thanks for turning my parody into reality you ridiculous person.
    
    Weird thing is I’ve seen no criticism from Labour Party supporters about their party’s behaviour after the third time the endemic rape culture in their party reared its ugly head again . It’s almost like like you see no issue with such appalling behaviour, it’s much the same as the way the party condoned a naked 16 year old running from an MPs house or an mp asking a rape victim how free and easy she is.
    
    If any of you actually believe Ztevs smear here’s the actual story which actually proves he did nothing wrong
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11992215
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:56am
    - alloytoo
      
      I’m still wondering how a victim centric approach to this scandal carefully avoided consulting the experts until the excrement hit the proverbial.
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:21am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Alloytoo they did consult an “ expert “ they found one who was likely to say that suppressing the scandal and not telling the parents was “ best practice “ . Check out her LinkedIn profile and see if you can figure out why .
        https://nz.linkedin.com/in/conor-twyford-a1384567
        
        Labour only care about victims that give them an international audience.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:33am
  - Pascal
    
    Did you take harvey up on his offer about the youth camp?
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:44am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Pascal that was Muttonbird.
      
      So far he refuses to take me up on my wager while at the same time sticking to his story. We are all hoping that one day he gets the call that a spine donor has been found for him . It can’t be easy living life with the integrity of a jellyfish.
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:28am
      - Pascal
        
        Thanks for the correction, Harvey.
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:02am
Southern Bear

FIANZ President says he and his muslim/islamic community knew Mark Taylor before he flew off to live the jihadi dream and that he attended their mosques. NZ mosques have been caught preaching radical views before. Are they still doing it? Are the government and the security services keeping them in check, or do they turn a blind eye to soft radicalisation due to the risk being played down by the useful idiots already in their ranks?
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March 7, 2019 8:10am
- Scott
  
  It’s a good comment southern bear and some very perceptive questions. But here is the thing. Islam and its mosques are totally protected in the West by the police and the law and the government and the media. So they can get away with anything. And you are not allowed to criticise them.
  
  Despite what people like big bruv may say you are perfectly within your rights to criticise Christianity and criticise churches. However that same courtesy is not extended to Islam, to Muslims and their mosques. If you criticise Islam you are probably going to be labelled as Islamophobic.
  
  Don’t believe me? Here is a very short clip of well-known activist Lauren Southern attempting to do what is seen by the police as a radical provocative act. She is attempting to visit a Mosque in Sydney!
  The policeman will not allow her to walk down the street to even get to the vicinity of the mosque!
  
  He believes that there will be a breach of the peace because they are “highly religious there”.
  
  But who will be breaching the peace? Will it be Lauren Southern or will it be the Muslims? No prize for guessing who the violent perpetrators are likely to be.
  
  That’s why Mark Taylor and his mosque will get slapped on the hand by this government. Our Prime Minister says that Mark Taylor is is in serious legal jeopardy. I presume that means that he will get a strongly worded letter from the UN?!
  
  The left are just totally into appeasing Muslims. They see them as victims. In the meantime Muslims come to the Western and see themselves as conquerors. We need to wake up!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdEaWXomhFU
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:47am
  - Southern Bear
    
    Re propensity for mass violence, I completely agree. You don’t see Christian mobs burning or flipping cars and then storming embassies following publication, on the other side of the world, of cartoons mocking baby Jesus.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:05am
  - lifesgood
    
    I don’t think the west see them as victims so much as being shit scared of them. The murderous cult has killed so many innocent people over the last few years that nobody wants to insult them for fear of another attack. Basically the terrorists have won.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:08am
  - tf78
    
    I see Milo Yiannopolous is banned from entering Australia.
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:03am
    - kowtow
      
      He’s a fuckwit . 1488 . What a nasty piece of shit.
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:44am
      - tf78
        
        kowtow – I reckon he’d give you a run for your money.
        
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        March 7, 2019 5:30pm
      - kowtow
        
        tf78
        
        Why did he make a paypal payment of $14.88 to a Jewish journalist.
        
        I have no time for neo nazi anti semites.
        
        So he could give me a run for my money , I don’t care . That does not make him a decent person.
        
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        March 7, 2019 5:56pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Authorities always take the line of least resistance. When you are a public servant, you do not want to run the risk of putting your retirement (with pension) at risk, so you will focus on the party who will be the least likely to “put up a fight.”
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:04am
artemisia

A plan so cunning Mr Twyford can slap a tail on it and call it Kiwibuild. Huapai homes already on the open market suddenly turn into weasels.

“Patently stupid” said Gareth Kiernan, chief forecaster at Infometrics. “….”If the aim is to increase the supply of housing because we’re not building fast enough and that’s contributing to the affordability programme, then Phil Twyford’s modus operandi to date of walking down the street, finding a house that’s already being built, and slapping a KiwiBuild sticker on is patently stupid and nothing more than window dressing,” he said. “However, if the aim of the programme is to effectively provide a taxpayer subsidy to help a select and lucky few people into their first home, then selling at a discounted rate to first-home buyers fits the objective.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/111074456/huapai-kiwibuild-homes-had-already-been-for-sale-on-open-market
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March 7, 2019 8:10am
- hullkiwi
  
  Sorry, but that is just the taxpayer providing a big fat cheque to the first home buyer to make the net purchase price cheaper.
  
  That is:
  1. a con trick that makes homes seem affordable when they are not, and gives the home buyer an opportunity to make a profit at the expense of the taxpayer;
  
  2. is discriminatory against existing homeowners and taxpayers; and
  
  3. is bribery and corruption – why doesn’t he just go and buy their votes?
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:24am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    why doesn’t he just go and buy their votes?
    
    He just did.
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:37am
    - ztev
      
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      So you are a capitalist , explain how selling houses is buying votes ?
      
      if the developer wants to sell in bulk to to kiwi-build who then onsells…maybe the developer has the bank saying pay us back in 20 days or we close your business so he needs a buyer …fast.
      Surely better than paying $940 mill to Chorus for 45% of its shares…houses are good arent they.
      
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      March 7, 2019 8:52am
      - Lance
        
        ztev… strong contender of most moronic post of the month
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:56am
      - Tall Man
        
        And again you clearly demonstrate that you are as dumb as your beloved ardern the liar.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:06am
      - Pascal
        
        * 2016; developer plans new subdivision for 50 houses – market value expected $800,000 per house.
        * 2018; Twyford / Kiwibuild buys all 50 planned and partially built houses for $700,000 per house.
        * 2018; Twyford / Kiwibuild sells houses to select few for $600,000.
        
        What is the outcome?
        
        * Developer gets a reasonable, guaranteed profit.
        * New home owners gets a $200,000 gift from Labour, paid for by the long suffering tax payer
        * The housing shortage is not addressed as these were pre-planned houses
        * Nothing has changed, except Labour has spent $200k per person to try and buy a bit more favour
        
        You can look at the example of the Dr and Marketing Manager that Jacinda gifted with a house and a lemon tree. They were bragging on Twitter about how they made a $70,000 profit in just one day thanks to Kiwibuild and, as they put it:
        
        “but funny thing if you check valuations and sales of house behind these which are smaller 3 months ago a 3 bedroom stand alone sold for $716,000 so double joke is on you”
        
        The double joke is indeed on us. We tax payers are subsidising Labour’s vote buying and helping people into large profits, while many tax payers are struggling to buy their own homes and the housing shortage remains unchanged.
        
        But even more priceless, ztev supports and applauds this.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:07am
  - lonma
    
    It is also possibly a response to one of New Zealands larger homebuilders possibly sending coded messages to government (they can read between the lines in government after all) that without a major capital injection they might struggle to continue as a going concern. Immediate sale of around 100 hard to sell properties on cash terms would solve cashflow problems and repair the balance sheet if that was the case. Or am I being cynical?
    
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    March 7, 2019 1:16pm
- rockape
  
  If they hadn’t sold and Kiwibuild hadn’t said they would underwrite then the builders would have had to drop the price to a more affordable one. Isnt that the reason Kiwibuild exists, yet they have undermined that aspect of the market!
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:37am
CJames

Interesting to see that the Prime Minister was waffling so much yesterday in Oral Questions that the speaker had to reprimand her twice. And she still couldn’t get it right about the new taxes that both she and Grant Robinson said weren’t there. The newspapers aren’t reporting this but her lack of competence is being unpeeled like an onion.
When will she go in the witless protection scheme?
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March 7, 2019 8:12am
- hullkiwi
  
  I’m picking she’ll be busy next Tuesday/Wednesday and Peters will be left to nbe in the hot seat.
  
  It would fun watching him trying to face both ways at the same time while he defends the indefensible and then try and say what NZ Last will or will not do!!!
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:16am
- holysheet
  
  Are you sure she’s not there already?
  No one can be this bad can they.?
  I would send the clone back to the country it came from, citing it’s not fit for purpose.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:18am
- kowtow
  
  ‘The newspapers aren’t reporting this ‘
  
  How very queer.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:25am
  - G152
    
    How usual for the fake news to live up to its name
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:32am
- KevOB
  
  It wasn’t mere waffle. The PM has some verbal skills and can say nothing about everything. She is trying repartee on a skilled former prosecutor. The gotcha look on her face says that is the measure of her debating skills. Pitiful.
  Mr Speaker Mallard had to consider briefly whether to eject her for ignoring his requests for her to answer the question.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:33am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Cindy can’t answer the question as she does not know the answers, or understand it. It would help if she had actually read the report but then Grant apparently had not read it in depth either. Cindy’s defensive mechanism is all she has to ward off Simon’s questions, hence hinting that racism was behind Simon’s questions, and the bitch face she had screwed her face into. Talk about showing her nasty side.
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:43am
    - KevOB
      
      Ardern and her Minister of monetary Finesse don’t have the intellectual skills to read and consider the TWG reports. Being used to tax systems and law even I find them taking effort.
      
      Ardern doesn’t need facts to enable to her to speak just an opportunity. She’ll tell you…
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:22am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And the fact that he has Maori heritage, sadly, is a great foil and makes it harder for him to be called a racist, although they do infer.
      
      Peters of all people, casting slurs about someone not being Maori enough.
      
      I think Simon is the perfect man to out Peters Peters.
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:07pm
- niggly
  
  It was also bizarre to see Ardern being sarcastic to Bridges by saying something like “so he finally read the Tax Working Group report has he” etc.
  
  Which was a silly thing to say, because “betcha a hundy” that Jacinda has NOT read the TWG report herself!
  
  Sure, she may have read the summaries (and had Robbo bring out the crayons so they both could highlight all the parts they don’t understand and some key talking points), but here’s an opportunity for National’s MP’s fire questions back to the PM as to how much of the TWG report has she read and understood!
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:40am
  - RalphT
    
    Of course she’s read it; it’s just that she doesn’t understand it.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:12am
    - hullkiwi
      
      RalphT yes she has looked at the Report, but the problem for the SLG is she is a millenial with a Communications degree.
      
      Unfortunately for her though, the report did not contain enough PowerPoint presentation pages and pictures for her to understand what the content of the report is.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:49am
    - rockape
      
      She only reads between the lines, that makes comprehension hard!
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:39am
  - RF
    
    I can remember when Ardern the lying shrew was waxing on about her being a kind and truthful person.
    
    We all know she is nothing but a lying self serving nasty vindictive piece of work who deserves to be dumped next year.
    
    I am tempted to express my true opinion but this is a family blog.
    
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    March 7, 2019 1:26pm
- Yvette
  
  Another point is that when asked about the PR vacuum following the release of the Tax Report, Ardern claims ‘It is to have a debate’
  
  But when she can not define what tax options of the Report the Government is actually considering, and also indicates Winston is yet to be “onside” with whatever it is – what the hell is anyone really debating?
  
  Useful debate requires a topic
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:46am
- kevn
  
  @CJ…. JA must look forward (not) to her Tuesday Hosking interviews.
  Tuesday morning highlight for me.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:14am
- Random T Person
  
  Have you a link please? Or can you say which questions she was ‘responding’ to?
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:59am
  - niggly
    
    https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=205253
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:39pm
hullkiwi

Seems Twitford is not the only one un able to deliver on his hyped up rhetoric and big ideas. According to the link below Two mums Shaw is not going to be able to deliver on a carbon free electricity network. His lead to his working group was to look at solar and wind farms, but it seems the maths says it is unlikely to meet targets.

The case of dogma meets reality.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/money/finance/govt-open-to-advice-on-100percent-renewable-target-shaw/ar-BBUpWtb?ocid=spartandhp
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March 7, 2019 8:12am
- Local Miller
  
  Liebour’s take on Groucho Marx: These are our targets, if we don’t like them, well we have others.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:32am
- Rachael Membery
  
  A hat tip to the environment?
  
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  March 7, 2019 3:08pm
holysheet

While proudly showing off his new apartment to friends late one night, Winston led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong.
“What’s that big brass gong for?” one of the guests asked.
“Why. that’s my talking clock” Winston replied.
“How does it work?”
“Watch”, Winston said, giving it an ear-shattering pound with a hammer.
Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed, “For fuck sake, you wanker, it’s 2am in the fucking morning!!”
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March 7, 2019 8:14am
lifesgood

If my grandkids were forced to strike I would be putting them in the car, taking them to school, which would still have to be open, and sitting with them all day while they did school work, with the usual breaks etc. I suggest others do this too. Mercifully my grandkids school is enlightened, striking is not on, apparently, and the kids are expected to attend. It is outrageous that kids are being encouraged in this nonsense.
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March 7, 2019 8:14am
- Southern Bear
  
  There are plenty of schools with lefty rebel parent groups encouraging the kids to strike. How about they spend the day at school studying the two-sides of the climate change debate?
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:23am
  - Local Miller
    
    There are two sides?
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:33am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Sure, first question to answer is, how many times has the climate apocalypse been forecast and how many times has it actually arrived ?
      
      In 1989, the UN itslef proclaimed that unless action was taken, byt the year 2000 the earth would beyond saving.
      
      Pardon us “normies” for taking such proclamations with a shit-ton of salt.
      
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      March 7, 2019 1:07pm
- Jules99
  
  Glad to see this in the Herald:
  
  NZ Secondary Principals Council chairman James Morris said school principals would not condone the strike.
  
  “Whilst most principals would support students expressing support for climate change action, they would be reluctant to approve students taking time away from their classes to do so,” he told the Herald last week.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:24am
  - lifesgood
    
    “Be reluctant” is not good enough.
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:46am
  - Ruahine
    
    Reads like weasel words.
    
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    March 7, 2019 12:55pm
- burt
  
  lifesgood
  
  It is outrageous that kids are being encouraged in this nonsense.
  
  Well I guess when the adult ‘believers’ are too scared to debate skeptics they have to sent the children in to do their bidding.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:48am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Are these the same parents that religiously clog up the roads before and after school, picking up little Johnny and Jill?
  
  Wanna support climate change? Walk them to and from school. Or let them ride a bike. Feel free to pick up any rubbish along the way.
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:54am
Maggy Wassilieff

Denmark not worried about rising sea-level
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/06/artificial-archipelago-copenhagen-plans-floating-silicon-valley

and why should they be?
Nothing out of the ordinary has been happening with global sea-level since the 1860s.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/05/30-years-of-noaa-tide-gauge-data-debunk-1988-senate-hearing-climate-alarmist-claims/
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March 7, 2019 8:15am
slightlyrighty

Ardern essentially insinuated that Bridges was motivated by Racism.

The sight of a white PM hinting that a National Leader with Maori Heritage is racist for highlighting that the Tax Working Group has, in it’s recommendations, Race Based Tax Exemptions is very ‘unusual’. The fact that most of the Main Stream Media is not highlighting this is expected, but disgusting.

If John Key had said something along those lines, the media would be shouting it from the rooftops.
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March 7, 2019 8:21am
- Richard
  
  The PM’s foreign ministers favourite joke:” Two Wongs don’t make a white.”
  The PM’s housing minister :”Chinese sounding names indicates their all foreigners..”
  
  The PM wants to talk about racism? She better get out of the racist glasshouse she’s standing in then before she throws stones.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:29am
  - Ruahine
    
    Much of this clamour for a CGT is underpinned by racism. Anti Chinese in particular because its main thrust is about housing and rentals in particular where many NZ residents and citizens of Chinese extraction were buying houses especially for rentals. Twyford has a particular disdain for people who own rental properties especially ones with ‘chinky’ names.
    
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    March 7, 2019 1:10pm
- lifesgood
  
  Accidental down tick , sorry!
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:47am
  - Tall Man
    
    Naughty corner with stupid steffy for you…
    
    Actually, no offense is worth that punishment.
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:09am
- kowtow
  
  When you don’t have a rational argument you reach into the “equality” tool box and grab : racism , sexism, misogyny, unfairness……
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:00am
- kevn
  
  @SR… JA certainly came across as petulant at best. Her mimic at his slow questioning style at the beginning was rude and snippy.
  Bridges was quite measured.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:17am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Looked like he was enjoying himself.
    
    I am amazed that the clip was attached to the article.
    
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    March 7, 2019 3:42pm
- Yvette
  
  Can Ardern explain how you refer to Maori as a group without being accused of racism?
  
  In an item “No mana for Maori”, was Kelvin Davis being racist when he said –
  Māori are more likely to be overweight, depressed, homeless, incarcerated and uneducated according to these disturbing statistics produced under National’s watch.
  
  And from the Cullen “Tax Working Group Report” –
  Te Ao Māori perspectives on wellbeing and living standards
  9. He Ara Waiora draws on four tikanga principles: manaakitanga (care and respect); kaitiakitanga (stewardship/guardianship); whanaungatanga (the relationships/connections between us); and ōhanga/whairama (prosperity). These principles support the preservation and sustainable development of the four capitals of the Living Standards Framework.
  – Future of Tax: Final Report Volume I – Recommendations, 2 Frameworks for assessing tax policy
  
  Is this racist or just cultural appropriation?
  Which is a question that could do with answering because likely it will arise again in the up-coming Wellbeing Budget, heralded by Ardern at the UN recently.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:24am
- Surely Knott
  
  T. Mallard deserves a gold medal here though. The speaker called her out on it. Bridges asked a straight forward question about CGT & Maori land exemptions. And Jacinda tried to shut him down by implying a sinister motivation, “I question the members motivation behind this line of questioning ” And Mallard had to reprimand her – to not in that way indirectly question the motivations of a member, and “if people have specific things to say they shoud say it.” Good job. He’s not having any of this shutting down of fair debate by name calling and character assassinations .
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:51am
  - Tall Man
    
    But, the question was never answered.
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:11am
  - Komata
    
    S K@0951
    
    …At least, not at the moment…
    
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    March 7, 2019 12:11pm
DigNap15

ISIS Mark Taylor is either thick or out of touch with reality.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111089459/mark-taylor-the-kiwi-jihadi-feels-stabbed-in-the-back-by-nz–report

He thinks we should bring him back!
He is a complete waste of space.
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March 7, 2019 8:24am
- Richard
  
  We should bring this guy back ASAP!
  
  The NZ Army always need good targets for their live firing training operations.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:32am
- G152
  
  By his actions we can judge him.
  He ripped up his passport and suggested murder and mayhem on our streets.
  Leave him where he is
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:35am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Mark Taylor has inhaled enough cannabis already. ?
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:47am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Milk of Poppy too no doubt.
      
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      March 7, 2019 4:14pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner heard the government had offered him a State House in Mt Roskill but he’s now decided to stay in Syria.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:44am
  - Longknives
    
    “My partner heard the government had offered him a State House in Mt Roskill but he’s now decided to stay in Syria.”
    
    Brilliant! Though sometimes I almost wish Stephieboy was still around to take the bait…
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:43am
- KevOB
  
  Mark Taylor is a citizen and has all the rights associated with that.
  Has Taylor actually committed any chargeable crime under NZ law? If so, is that relevant to refusing assistance for his return home?
  
  Personal dislike has no place in public administration.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:54am
  - alex Masterley
    
    I think it is clear that we have to let Mark Taylor back into the country, like it or not.
    However, as far as i am concerned we should not subsidise his return and he can walk home.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:00am
    - Swifty
      
      Yep, agreed.
      
      If he can’t get back here under his own steam, diddums.
      
      (He might now be regretting ripping up his passport.)
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:05am
    - Muttonbird
      
      Not according to My Cockskin. He thinks we should tear up international law.
      
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      March 7, 2019 11:45am
      - Swifty
        
        Get a thrill from typing that?
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:52am
      - Muttonbird
        
        At least I have cockskin!
        
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        March 7, 2019 12:44pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I’m sure you do muttonturd, it’s the paucity of it that we’re laughing at.
        
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        March 7, 2019 2:33pm
  - MCos
    
    I believe it’s a criminal offence to join a designated terrorist organization, of which ISIS is one.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:06am
    - Southern Bear
      
      He can come back to NZ and run the political wing of Hezbollah – it’s still legal here. Maybe FIANZ will finance the return of their community member.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:12am
  - Yvette
    
    KevOB –
    Apparently he has aided, and has been a member of a terrorist organisation, as MCos says.
    
    Meanwhile a relative asserts Taylor was brain-damaged at the age of two, and others evidence a very low IQ. He has married six times, with the last partner (a Malaysian) indicating Taylor’s addiction to playing video war games influenced his ending up where he is. He is obviously mentally very un-well and if returned to New Zealand should be examined by experts to determine protective custody apart from any criminal liabilities.
    
    Southern Bear – FIANZ is already one of the sources of the estimation of his IQ
    
    That Taylor has survived so far may indicate a streak of luck better than average (even some politicians) and could be evidence to suggest that Allah does indeed not exist.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:41am
    - KevOB
      
      But what NZ law can Taylor be charged under? I see some earlier provisions enacted re surveillance and travel documents.
      He may have not complied with some UN statements, wishes or resolutions but he is not subject to UN statehood but the laws of NZ and those of any other country he is otherwise resident in.
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:40am
      - Batman
        
        Terrorism suppression Act.
        
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        March 7, 2019 1:47pm
      - KevOB
        
        The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 is quite specific as to entities at that time. It would take some nimble argument to include ISIS. Prosecution under that is that Act is highly doubtful.
        http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2002/0034/latest/DLM152400.html
        
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        March 7, 2019 6:14pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Does “public safety”?
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:12am
  - kowtow
    
    He was under arms against the lawfully constituted gubmint of Syria . They can have him.
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:48am
  - tf78
    
    KevOB – not yet, but given the time and opportunity.
    
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    March 7, 2019 5:34pm
RW Capitalist

Wife just sent a Colmar Brunton poll, which “earns” her flybuy points.
May those on here with flybuys, should sign up.
Needless to say this govt. performance poll, scored very badly.
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March 7, 2019 8:31am
- Richard
  
  I did one as well! Great fun.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:33am
  - hullkiwi
    
    If that is how they conduct their polls, is it any wonder the results are as dud as the Czech lawnmower salesman?
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:08am
- artemisia
  
  Better to be seriously positive about one of the minor government parties. Because hubris.
  
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  March 7, 2019 3:37pm
- tf78
  
  More bribery by any chance.
  
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  March 7, 2019 5:36pm
Maggie Pie

What a nasty cheating bitch! Yet my partner sits there every night rooting for her – go figure 🙁

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1103362139601989633
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March 7, 2019 8:36am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Yet my partner sits there every night rooting for her
  
  Dinnerless I would hope.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:40am
- holysheet
  
  I didn’t pick you as “batting for the other side” MP.
  No right minded male watches this crap.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:45am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    having been a border at St Mary’s for 11 yrs holy, i’d say dont knock it till you try it. LOL!!
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:22am
    - holysheet
      
      I didn’t know there were female “Choir Boys” in the convents.
      You learn something every day.
      Thanks DPF for hosting such an informative blog.
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:11am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      which St Mary’s?
      
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      March 7, 2019 7:33pm
- Richard
  
  ” Yet my partner sits there every night rooting for her ”
  
  Oh God, the double entendre!
  The double entendre I could make out of that.
  
  Please excuse me. I didn’t take my pills this morning….
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:54am
- Longknives
  
  Newsflash- ‘Reality’ TV Shows aren’t real…
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:41am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Biggest misnomer of modern times
  “Reality TV”
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:18am
Inandout

Hosking interviewed Anette King this morning and he mentioned her career had been pretty much scandal free, except for her daughter’s car crash and drugs found in the car. Mike has obviously a lot of time for King and mentioned her book just out. Would it have been unfriendly for Mike to have mentioned King’s biggest scandal, that being associated with Ginga Hughes and his sexual antics with the young boy?
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March 7, 2019 8:42am
- holysheet
  
  Nah like all other Liarbour sex scandals, it is not to be mentioned.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:47am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Or the favourable contract that Hawkes Bay DHB gave her “husbands” business partner, while she was Minister of Health.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:50am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Wasn’t it ‘the husband’ that was running HBDHB when Cuntliffe appointed managers for no apparent reason?
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Ray Lind, Annete King’s husband, was COO of HBDHB when the contract went out.
    
    Timeline and folks involved at bottom of this piece:
    
    Minister in $50m stoush
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10450275
    
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    March 7, 2019 4:34pm
- Batman
  
  Apparently that is in the book… I haven’t read it yet obviously
  
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  March 7, 2019 1:49pm
niggly

Betcha today Jacinda is saying to herself “Thank God it’s Thursday …. as I don’t have to make an appearance at Question Time and have Simon Bridges cross examine me and show everyone how incompetent I am …. now what other important Prime Ministerial duties should I attend to today that is very important ….. (thinks long and hard) I know, how about a visit to a kindergarten or two, yes …. YES I can do this”!

Whaddaya reckon???
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March 7, 2019 8:49am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Hehehehe….
  Thats Bridges conundrum , questions in parliament are his only job at the moment… as Paula is in charge of finding leakers and traitors in caucus
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:54am
  - niggly
    
    From what you’ve written … at least it seems like Bridges and Paula are doing something useful!
    
    Can you say the same for Jacinda – is she doing anything useful? If so, what!
    
    And are you sure you’re not Trev, Ztev? It’s just that you said “Hehehe” which I presume means you are laughing at the “SLG” (which of course is ™ to Trev)! Well if not, at least you and Trev have something in common that most if here agree with! 😉
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:04am
    - stigie
      
      “is she doing anything useful? If so, what!”
      
      She’s fucked the oil and gas industry which is very useful with a stroke of a pen on her way to visit 2 primary schools to say we must ban fossil fuels..?
      The left just love her saying “This is my nuclear free moment” !~
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:48am
  - kevn
    
    z… Downticksleader. hehehehe
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:19am
  - pentwig
    
    ztev/micky
    bored?
    no clients?
    nothing positive to pen about CoL?
    how sad!
    but you know we love to kick your bum on KB so you keep on bending over for us
    thanking us is not required!
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:55am
MCos

Year ago. Many years ago all the schools kids in Timaru, of which I was one, were forced to take the day off and stand in the hot sun for hours waiting to watch QEII driven around in a Landrover and make a speech we couldn’t hear.
A few years later we had the afternoon off to watch the Lions and then in 1961 the French when a woman came out of the crowd and thumped one of French ogres after he’d flattened a local chap in full view of everyone except the ref.
It was these days off school that ruined my education!
As far as I’m concerned it’s time to crack down on people who take their kids out of school for overseas holidays during term time.
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March 7, 2019 8:55am
- Inandout
  
  Don’t know about your schooling, but it may have affected your brain.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    He’s not gettinng enough brain food, Denheath’s are in short supply where he lives or he’s too tight to spend the money.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:31am
- Tall Man
  
  Those were not politically motivated events.
  
  The current drive for a “student” protest is to highlight the destruction of the climate brought about by capitalism.
  
  FFS, how retarded can you get?
  
  Only a blind and ignorant fool, or someone who makes money preying on same, would ever assume that “man” (never women) can affect and alter the climate patterns of the earth without massive destruction of either the environment or our way of life.
  
  They may as well do a “Canute” and protest about the tide rising and falling.
  
  Only a complete moron would not see that this is just a little more “virtual signalling” as part of the “jacinda mania” put out by the msm.
  
  FFS, who cares whether they go to school or not, the bulk of them are so poorly educated that it makes little difference if they are there or not.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:36am
ztev

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$25 mill extra to rebuild the top surface of the Kapiti expressway…which was a rushed job to open before the election…who would have guessed.
the Auckland Motorway tunnels were complete but some sort of ‘delay’ meant they would open closer to the election.
I detect a pattern here
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March 7, 2019 9:09am
- niggly
  
  So some subcontractors must have used inferior products or simply made a hash of it ….and according to Muttonbird last night and Ztev today, “wah wah it was John Key’s fault”!
  
  (Gee that John Key must have been a busy man, perhaps he was like superman and popped into a phone booth, changed out of his suit and into some overalls and hey presto there he was operating the tar laying truck and somehow sabotaged the Expressway! That’s Leftie thinking for you)!
  
  Fraser House must be desperately flinging out mud to all in sundry in the hope it distracts the people from a COL PM and Finance Minister that doesn’t even understand it’s own Tax Working Group report and needs some “old white man geezer” to do the talking to the media on their behalf!
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:16am
  - tf78
    
    I think John Key must have been as busy then as Trump is today- I just don’t know how they do it.
    
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    March 7, 2019 5:43pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Awesome blokes….
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:37pm
- herb1
  
  I detect a pattern here. A Government employee fraudulently using taxpayers time and money to publicly berate anyone opposed to the Winston Peters installed Government.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:18am
- septic skeptic
  
  A rushed job? On a New Zealand road construction site? Dream on.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:26am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    There is resealing work on the road outside Pomari.
    About 100m, It is taking ALL of the announced period …11 feb-25 march 30 working days , 3.3m per day…..really?
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:26am
- Tall Man
  
  My understanding of the iissue was that the “weather” intervened in a negative way which prevented the “binding” of the surfaces. So I guess “global warming” must have been the culprit but then, I’m not a looney lefty so must be wrong.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/95074195/repair-work-needed-on-kapiti-expressway-because-waterproof-material-failed
  
  “Last month, the agency’s Wellington transport systems manager, Mark Owen, said “It appears that the issue has been caused by water penetrating the membrane seal that was applied to the pavement prior to the surfacing (OGPA) being laid.”
  
  Now I didn’t drive that road much but I still can’t recall seeing Sir John there doing a bit of work but again, I may be wrong as I’m not a lefty nutter.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:43am
- srylands
  
  Oh yes both those stories seem totally plausible. To a crazy person.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:56am
- rangitoto
  
  NZ roads are pathetic. They cost more, are slower to construct and are poor quality And cut the crap about the ground conditions. I’ve seen road construction in Japan and the ground condition there are just as difficult.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:11am
- MCos
  
  I don’t know if there was a political factor in the substandard construction of that particular road.
  However.
  My sister in law has a house out in the Prachinburi countryside of Thailand that along with a few dozen houses was accessed by a gravel track.
  Just before a local election it was sealed.
  Just after the local election the adjacent river flooded, as it does every year, and the new seal was gone.
  Further up where river doesn’t cause a problem the road goes into a different jurisdiction and there’s a gap of nothing for twenty metres before a concrete road takes over.
  
  Getting back to the Kapiti road. NZTA, or whoever built it, probably gave the job to the cheapest bidders . . . .
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:33am
MrTips

Complete twats.
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March 7, 2019 9:20am
trout

Not good news for the ‘dump Trump’ brigade. The Don’s ratings have gone up to 46% (after two years in office Clinton was 45%, and Obama was 48%). People still want him as President in spite of the MSM bias. Must be doing something right!
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March 7, 2019 9:26am
- Albert_Ross
  
  By exactly the same logic, what would you say that Jacinda is doing right?
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:30am
  - Tall Man
    
    The “measurement” here is “who is preferred Prime Minister” which generally defaults to the current or most highly “visible” mp.
    
    The US survey is a little more complex and actually rates “achievements” and reactions to those “achievements”. That type of survey is pointless here as ardern the liar and her government have actually achieved little other than driving a massive division through the heart of New Zealand between those who work, earn and pay tax and those who do none of those things.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:48am
  - Inandout
    
    Cindy wasn’t voted in as leader. She was appointed.
    
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    March 7, 2019 11:49am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      You would think anointed.
      
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      March 7, 2019 4:43pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Pissed upon?
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:33pm
  - trout
    
    Jacinda is playing the role of a put-upon female; all would be sweetness and light if only these pesky males would stop bothering me with awkward questions. ‘Bye now, I have planned a photo-op with more children’. And the women voters love it; they are not concerned with political realities. Add the enamoured women to the labour base and you get good numbers.
    
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    March 7, 2019 4:11pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      She should make sure not to touch any-ones hair.
      
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      March 7, 2019 4:43pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I think our Kiwi women are smarter than the average bear…..
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:35pm
  - tf78
    
    Bert – Jacinda’s doing nothing as the MSM are doing it all for her.
    
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    March 7, 2019 5:45pm
- KevOB
  
  The WSJ has now turned too for Trump.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:47am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    The dems seem to be swinging left, so GOP becomes the sensible default
    
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    March 7, 2019 7:44pm
Happychappy

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12209438
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March 7, 2019 9:30am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Can’t even do that right.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:27am
Manolo

Will he make the next move tomorrow?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/05/brennan_predicts_mueller_report_more_indictments_on_friday_i_dont_have_inside_knowledge.html
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March 7, 2019 9:31am
- Inandout
  
  A bloody born again Muslim to boot. FFS
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:18pm
- Ed Snack
  
  We can always hope that one of the indictments is Brennan…
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:08pm
Jack5

Western intelligence has been tracking Huawei – and ZTE Corp – since long before Trump became President.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-china-huawei-tech-insight/long-before-trumps-trade-war-with-china-huaweis-activities-were-secretly-tracked-idUKKCN1QN2B7
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March 7, 2019 9:34am
secondcumming

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

What’s with all these fucking *firelighters* in Christchurch?
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March 7, 2019 9:36am
- Tall Man
  
  And Nelson it seems.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:49am
Happychappy

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12210215
Didn’t a National MP do this in there last term of Government and the opposition and the media wanted him sack for what they thought was blackmail, isn’t it funny now when the boot is on the other foot it’s people twisting words .
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March 7, 2019 9:37am
- Longknives
  
  It’s different when the Left do it.
  Because they believe ‘We are the good guys’ !(Seriously- That’s how a Labour Party acquaintance explained their hypocrisy to me)
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:45am
Dave Mann

Happy Intergalactic Vacuum Day to all our readers.

On this day we celebrate the existence of nothingness and today we focus on its earthly manifestation: the intelligence of the Labour caucus.

Many thanks to Mr Peters for your gift to our nation. You will be remembered.
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March 7, 2019 9:45am
- Longknives
  
  When Judas Peters is gone there will be one hell of a line of people waiting to piss on his grave…(Including my elderly relatives who voted for him for years and years- to ‘keep those bloody Greens out of Government’ etc etc)
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:48am
  - Paulus
    
    Longknives
    No – a bottle of Whisky first then passed through my kidneys.
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:49am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I really want to go to a large event where Peters is the Guest of Honour. Hopefully, there will be much to drink, and lots of lovely food. Of course, there will be flowers, lots of them. Then Longknives, and only then can you join that line…
    
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    March 7, 2019 7:39pm
- Tall Man
  
  “Vacuum”, the second name for ardern the liar…..according to her university colleagues.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:52am
  - waikatogirl
    
    If I remember the conversation on KB, the name was “Dyson”, a brand of vacuum.
    
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    March 7, 2019 12:15pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Happy to stand corrected…the sentiment is the same though 🙂
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:29pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Sure is ?
        
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        March 7, 2019 3:46pm
Yvette

One of the perversities of Parliament – the patsy question, when someone from your side asks a question, so you get to say something to remind voters you are still around.

Yesterday it was Shane Jones practicing his hokey Davy Crockett backwoodsman-come-pseudo-political verbally bloated so-called oratory –

Mark Patterson: What feedback has he heard regarding this programme?

Hon SHANE JONES: In the interests of time, I shall be uncharacteristically modest and pithy. The feedback is a reminder that pastoral care is an important dimension when creating the new ranks of workers. It’s a reminder to industry as they seek to rely also on migrant labour that in the absence of suitable pastoral care dimensions their entreaties will fall on barren ears. – Hansard

translation: With new rural jobs, you may have to get a few PIs in when the cuzzie bros won’t get off their ~~arses~~ couches because they don’t hear you over the tv – I think.
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March 7, 2019 9:55am
- rangitoto
  
  What a complete Plonker Jones is.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:05am
  - KevOB
    
    Don’t underestimate Shane Jones. Those words were chosen carefully–he is a superb speaker. Was he having a polite dig at Mr Speaker? He refers to pithy and trebles the word count needed.
    
    I see him as having future PM potential. When speaking seriously he commands attention. SJ is also blessed with a superb intellect and ability to remember detail and understand it. (Rare in most of our MP’s)
    That view is hard to reconcile with the self deprecating clown persona he can present. Time will tell.
    
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    March 7, 2019 12:59pm
    - Tall Man
      
      So, do you think the National Party will take him in?
      
      Asking for a friend…. (ardern the liar)….
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:28pm
      - KevOB
        
        National have already recognised SJ by previously appointing him to a senior post. He resigned to pursue his Parliamentary role.
        
        SJ is an enigma.
        
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        March 7, 2019 6:21pm
    - tf78
      
      He thinks he’s a David Lange – well he was very successful wasn’t he. NOT
      
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      March 7, 2019 5:53pm
      - Tall Man
        
        He was fat…is that a starter?
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:30pm
- Dave Mann
  
  Very fitting that this is presented to us on Interstellar Vacuum Day….!
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:13am
- kowtow
  
  An over paid sack of shit.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:55am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Paid” implies work.
    
    He is awarded our money for his appearances.
    
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    March 7, 2019 11:06am
DigNap15

Here is a draft of an email I am going to send to Ardern.
Can you add any suggestions and other words?

Dear Ms Ardern
I am writing to ask why you mis-pronounce so many words.

Eg Productivity (productividy)

Responsibility (responsibilidy)

Reiterate (reiderate)

Labour Party (Pardy)

It is because ..

You have a speech impediment?

You are trying to copy Helen Clark?

You are too lazy to pronounce these words correctly

You are unaware of the correct pronunciation

You are trying to be clever (smart) and trying to change our language?

I would appreciate a quick answer.
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March 7, 2019 9:58am
- Longknives
  
  There are absoludely hundreds of words she mispronounces!
  She would probably wefute that though…
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:02am
  - ztev
    
    Whats Soimuns pronunciation ?
    
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    March 7, 2019 11:50am
    - softail 1450
      
      Trev,FFS get a part time job you silly old prick,how about “experimenting with explosives” you retarded lefty fuck.
      
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      March 7, 2019 11:59am
    - alex Masterley
      
      Its probably better then Jacinduhs!
      
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      March 7, 2019 1:02pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I’m not sure but I think he’s got “ardern is a liar” correct.
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:26pm
    - KevOB
      
      Votz yaws?
      
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      March 7, 2019 6:22pm
  - tf78
    
    Jeprody was a goodie.
    
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    March 7, 2019 5:54pm
- cmm
  
  They are different words, so they can have different meaning.
  
  For example:
  
  Poverty means starving and living in a mud hut with no shoes, no education and the family feels wealthy if they have two goats and a bucket.
  
  Poverdee really means envy. You’re in poverdee if you have a three year old XBox and only a 37 inch TV.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:15am
- alien
  
  I typically just read kiwiblog, but I decided to register to answer to you.
  
  One of the things I disliked when key was prime minister was the way the left would attack the way he would talk or such.
  
  Now the right are doing the same thing. Who cares how she talks. Attack the policy, not the person. Attack the job, not the person. There are plenty of things this government should be attacked on but it becomes childish when people focus on the way a person talks. Heaven forbid we all talk and pronounce the same way, boring that would become
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:20am
- graham
  
  Speaking to Mike Hosking on Tuesday, she mispronounced “jeopardise” as “jeop-RA-dise” four times, and “frustrating” as “fustrating” (dropping the first “r”).
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:16am
  - tf78
    
    graham – those words were toooooo big for her.
    
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    March 7, 2019 5:55pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  By all means reinforce her perception of kiwibloggers as mean-minded, nasty individuals who don’t have any real arguments and think it clever to seek to waste her time on petty irrelevancies.
  
  Come on folks – surely we are better than this really? Anybody?
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:02pm
  - stigie
    
    No, not when the arseholes from the left and Winston gave Simon a hard time on his speech, so fuck them !~
    
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    March 7, 2019 12:14pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      It’s mean and nasty when they do it, and it’s not different when the right does it.
      
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      March 7, 2019 1:53pm
      - tf78
        
        Bert -the right seem to be too polite to mention peoples’ impediments, while the left they think they are clever mocking and never look at themselves.
        
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        March 7, 2019 5:58pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You mean, are we better than them, I doubt it however, if you were taking you kids to college on day and their new teacher was clearly thick and unable to speak properly, would you be a happy camper?
    
    ardern the liar is representing us to the world and I don’t think her pronunciation is the problem, she comes across as stupid and the “word creativity…(creadividy) exemplifies that, probably because she is.
    
    However, we have an abundance of tossers on here who try to take the piss about soimon and pointing out both their hypocricy and stupidity is de rigueur.
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:24pm
- mic
  
  How about ‘jeprodize’=jeopordise
  
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  March 7, 2019 1:04pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  She will be pleased that you listen, to notice.
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:09pm
Yvette

Rt Hon Winston Peters: If any owner, Māori or otherwise, was holding land in trusteeship for future generations, how could a capital gains tax possibly apply when they do not intend to benefit from any capital gains themselves? – Hansard yesterday

Land? Or a farm? Or anything else to be inherited – “in trusteeship for future generations”.

Is this part of what Ardern is still to “sell” to Winston.
And as he said this yesterday, how well is she doing with that?
Is this partly too why Cullen, at $1062 a day, is retained until June 30 – to try and iron out any crap that arises from his Report?
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March 7, 2019 10:24am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Didn’t Cullen also want “unrealized gains” as part of his CGT?
  Therefore ALL land etc held in trust will have CGT payable EVERY year.
  
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  March 7, 2019 10:34am
  - DigNap15
    
    But not Maori Trusts?
    
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    March 7, 2019 10:39am
    - kowtow
      
      Not a chance . Part maoris will get all sorts of exemptions, as usual. And both the red and blue teams are complicit.
      Equality ?
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:57am
      - Tall Man
        
        I can’t see how you can drag the “blue team” into this.
        
        Simon Bridges has stated numerous times that should a CGT be imposed on NZ and due to come into effect after the 2020 election, if National win that election they will repeal that CGT Act.
        
        FFS, do you expect a personal note from him?
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:05am
      - kowtow
        
        Tall Man
        
        The Nats have a long history of pandering to Maori special interests , against their own base and stated principles.
        
        Do I expect a personal note from Simon , no, and that’s got to be one of the stupidest sentences posted today.
        
        Any other questions from the Nat boiler room interns this am ?
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:09am
      - Jack5
        
        Capital gains tax would be applied on realisation – but communally owned land like Maori land is never sold, realised.
        
        Yet the ownership changes as individuals die,and new individuals are born and grow.
        
        Family farms would not get the same benefit. Parents die, son or daughter buys farm, then parents’ estate would incur capital gains tax.
        
        Shareholders – owners – of companies change, but they would pay capital gains tax on profits on shAre sales.
        
        What would happen in CGT with tribal companies, such as those of Ngai Tahu and Waikato Maori?
        
        These avoid paying company tax by group charity registrations for their business. Presumably charities would be exempt from capital gains tax, too.
        
        The racial segregation of New Zealand in tax surely rules out a capital gains tax. A CGT that doesn’t apply to Maori land and Maori companies? Would non-Maori New Zealanders wear that?
        
        NZ will likely remain one of three countries in the 36 in the OECD that don’t have capital gains tax (the mistake of the American Tax Institute that there are far more is repeated frequently in NZ). Of the other two, Belgium has a land sales tax, death duties (a form of capital gains tax) paid by the beneficiaries of the estate, and a tax on stock exchange transactions. Singapore has property taxes. (Switzerland is sometimes said to have no CGT, but its CGT is imposed regionally by the cantons.)
        
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        March 7, 2019 11:32am
      - Universal Smith
        
        “The Nats have a long history of pandering to Maori special interests”
        
        Which is exactly how they formed an MMP government for so many years.
        
        The current abomination of a government is the price we are paying for Nationals ideological purity. Ideologically pure, but impotent to bring change.
        
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        March 7, 2019 12:28pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Wow kowtow, stupidest sentence of the day, I’m sure you’ll garner that accolade before the day is out, or mutton turd.
        
        Now, if by intern you mean something along these lines..
        
        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361509/
        
        you may be onto something.
        
        But if you’re thinking intern like this….
        
        https://www.newsweek.com/what-did-bill-clinton-do-monica-lewinsky-everything-know-about-white-house-783475
        
        you’re on something.
        
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        March 7, 2019 1:23pm
    - wreck1080
      
      We have a general problem with racism / affirmative action policies here in New Zealand.
      
      This will worsen over time as double degree BA/Law grads seek to get their name in the history books by ‘discovering’ new ways of reading between the lines of the treaty of waitangi!!
      
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      March 7, 2019 4:43pm
  - tf78
    
    Could people put all their relatives on every title of land owned within their families and be exempt from CGT.
    
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    March 7, 2019 6:00pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And if you have a holdout when you want to sell?
      
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      March 7, 2019 6:13pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Cullen will still be receiving taxpayer payments up to the day before election day still attempting to convince Winston he is in favour of the CGT.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:26pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Doesn’t he already get a Government stipend? and the Pension.
    
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    March 7, 2019 6:15pm
- KevOB
  
  That must mean that homes held in trust will be likewise excluded. Legislation has to be colour blind.
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:25pm
BeaB

No mystery about why kids are holding their climate change protest on a school day. It’s the best way to boost the numbers. They wouldn’t bother getting out of bed on a Saturday or would be busy with sports.
But a day off school? All the fun and excitement of seeing kids from other schools? Who would want to miss that? The turnout is likely to be enormous – all in the cause of climate change.
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March 7, 2019 10:30am
- alien
  
  I may not agree with them taking the time off school, nor with what they believe. But I support that they are actually standing up for what they believe. Too many New Zealanders don’t and a lot can’t even be bothered going and voting
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:03am
- Inandout
  
  Yes BB, and Cindy will be in her element with kiddies. They rarely question, just swallow.
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    Much like ardern the liar at varsity then…….
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:15pm
    - Inandout
      
      Oh TM, I hear if swallowed it goes straight to your ankles. This bird has so much history that has yet to be sung.
      
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      March 7, 2019 3:41pm
      - Tall Man
        
        The ankle boots?
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:20pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Smack!!
      
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      March 7, 2019 6:16pm
      - Tall Man
        
        You’re right, I needed that….. 😉
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:19pm
- All_on_Red
  
  I’m thinking of taking my kids up to Anchor Bay at Tawharanui to check Tidal measurements.
  
  #ClimateAction
  ?
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:05pm
  - Universal Smith
    
    But isn’t it all underwater like they predicted in 2019?
    
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    March 7, 2019 12:30pm
- tf78
  
  I’m hoping no one turns up and they all just treat it as a day off.
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:01pm
Jack5

The cock-up of cock-ups.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html
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March 7, 2019 11:08am
- wombatge
  
  What a way to go.
  I see he had the surgery done in Paris, the home of one of the biggest pricks on earth, Macron.
  Clicked on highest rated comments, there are some classics in there.
  one guy writes ” what a way to be remembered.”
  smart arse puts “Re-Membered”
  Money can’t buy your health, but obviously vanity and money can buy your death.
  He was obviously very big in diamonds but very small in the trouser snake department.
  I think I will battle on with the tackle God gave me after reading this.
  I wonder how many men have it surgically reduced? The mind boggles.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:19pm
  - Inandout
    
    The lengths some people will go to, but fat lot of good it did him.
    
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    March 7, 2019 3:45pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partner went to see about getting something larger but theyd run out of black ones.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:27pm
  - Tall Man
    
    There’ll probably be a surfeit of them when grant’s freebies cock chopping surgeries commence..
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:14pm
  - pentwig
    
    HaHa
    Maggie that was funny
    Listening to Q&A I needed a laugh
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:27pm
    - sooty
      
      Well a donkey dick, didn’t help him. Did it?
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:41pm
Happychappy

What a a night for Man U in the Champions League, go to France and score three away goals to see them through to the Quarterfinals.
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March 7, 2019 11:18am
- The only red for me is that of Manchester United
  
  Ole’s at the wheel tell me how does it feel. Great result. 10 of the regular squad out. Ole has something special about him. A real tactician.?
  
  And we have a liar at the wheel.
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:56am
  - Tall Man
    
    You had to put that last bit in diidn’t you?
    
    Depressed now……
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:10pm
Ross12

While I applaud what this charity group is doing, it shows what an incredibly bad state the UK has got itself into that they feel the need to do this work.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/06/children-given-lessons-how-treat-stab-wounds/
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March 7, 2019 11:19am
Tom Barker

Isn’t it wonderful to thing that the country is so economically secure and capably run that the government’s critics are reduced to finding fault with the prime minister’s enunciation. Long may this last.
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March 7, 2019 11:50am
- Swifty
  
  ‘capably run….’
  
  snigger
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:56am
- BeaB
  
  Exactly what happened with John Key – one of our best ever PMs and all his opponents could talk about was how he spoke – and his speech had plenty of substance, competence and knowledge behind it.
  Perhaps it’s a mark of excellence and Simon also has that mark upon him.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:01pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Repeatedly saying ‘jeopradise’ instead of ‘jeopardise’ is not a failure of enunciation. It is a failure of basic language skill. When combined with ignorance of the Treaty of Waitangi and being confused about GDP, the overall picture is of someone who is better suited to selling fish and chips than running our country.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:45pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    She hasn’t read the TWG report either
    That’s why she’s paying Cullen- so she doesn’t have to.
    
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    March 7, 2019 1:04pm
    - KevOB
      
      Cindy affirmed the other day in the House that she had read the TWG report(s). That was the import of her oral utterances and accompanying expressions. I believe she was attempting to deny Simon’s challenge that she hadn’t read it.
      
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      March 7, 2019 6:36pm
  - stigie
    
    NK :-
    Don’t forget her absolute knowledge of the Tax Working Groups report “Future of Tax”..?
    With that prick Cullen in charge and now fleecing the taxpayer to no end, perhaps they should rewrite it, “Taxing our Future” !~
    
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    March 7, 2019 1:08pm
    - sooty
      
      Maybe he could read the treaty while he’s at it!
      
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      March 7, 2019 2:37pm
- Tall Man
  
  I just think it great that people like you are allowed access to a computer in an effort to improve and educate yourself.
  
  Shame it’s not working yet.
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:08pm
Muttonbird

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Following the recent annihilation of Cameron Slater, and the failure of the National Party vendetta against Rouxle Le Roux, Westpac have fessed up that they acted illegally when handing over Nicky Hager’s bank records to police (probably at John Key’s request). They have bowed before Hager and the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Hager already tore the police a new arsehole on this last year and now the banks.

A great day for justice in New Zealand!

Pity ponytail-puller won’t be held to account for his part in this.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12210344
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March 7, 2019 12:10pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  What really really grinds me and my partners gears is the bit where it says,
  “police faild to tell the judge that Hagar was a JOURNALIST.”
  So why didn’t someone tell the judge about Cam?
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:20pm
- rangitoto
  
  Looks like Muttonbrain has been into the methylated spiirts again.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:58pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You mean he’s climbed out of the meths…..
    
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    March 7, 2019 1:19pm
- alien
  
  As a Male that used to have a pony tail I cant count the amount of woman who would walk past me and pull my hair, including one who is a labour party mp whose brother I was friends with in taupo. Oh if the stories on her came out.
  
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  March 7, 2019 1:33pm
- Richard
  
  Phew! Just got my tin foil hat on. That was close! You were saying Mutt?
  
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  March 7, 2019 1:45pm
- cmm
  
  You’re defending Le Roux? Which bit?
  
  * Driving stoned.
  * Driving drunk.
  * Driving with any alcohol/drugs on a learner’s.
  * Driving at excess speeds.
  * Driving on a leaner’s without adequate supervision.
  * Driving without due care.
  * Failing to stop at the scene.
  * Attempting to destroy evidence.
  * Failure to meet HD conditions.
  
  Since she’s an Afrikaner (inventor of apartheid) I’d have expected you lefties to give her an extra booting, not go in to bat for her.
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:25pm
  - rangitoto
    
    The Greebore First mob love any kind of Crims.
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:42pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  .. the failure of the National Party vendetta against Rouxle Le Roux..
  
  What? I think you’ll find the outrage at a drunk, stoned young woman escaping a jail sentence for killing a young man went right across party lines (except perhaps the Greens, who would have sung Kumbaya, and given her a hug).
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:58pm
- alloytoo
  
  Privacy is different when the left want it.
  
  Nothing sinister about that right?
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:14pm
tedbear

School kids going on strike.

“There’ll be no nationwide strikes on my watch”
signed
(Serial liar Ardern)
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March 7, 2019 12:44pm
- waikatogirl
  
  The kids are just taking their cue from their teachers who have signalled a nationwide strike on 3 April.
  
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  March 7, 2019 12:50pm
Maggie Pie

Gosh they could really be on to something here?
It would certainly provide a twist to that age old question, “Does my bum look big in this?”

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1103417489130692608
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March 7, 2019 12:52pm
Longknives

Jesus Wept!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12210436

This poor baby (who is Gender fluid of course) is being raised by three Transgender persons…

Sadly this is probably not going to end well….
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March 7, 2019 1:53pm
- RalphT
  
  And of course it will be society’s fault, not that of the people the “theyby” is being raised by.
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:10pm
- Tall Man
  
  FFS, why do they get airtime?
  
  You used to have to go to the circus to see these freaks, or a labour party meeting.
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:50pm
chiz

A new kind of warning about China: Why are Republicans endorsing state planning?:

[…] China’s new industrial policy has worked one marvel — namely, scaring many American conservatives into believing that the main driver of economic growth isn’t the market but bureaucrats invested with power to control the allocation of natural and financial resources.

Exhibit A is a report just out from the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, headed by Marco Rubio of Florida, on how to counter Beijing’s plan.

[…]

Conservatives — who take pride in their respect for history — should learn about the failed United States industrial policies of the 1980s, which were responses to the Japanese government’s attempt to dominate key consumer electronics technologies. These efforts worked neither in Japan nor in the United States.

The past has taught us that industrial policies fail often because they favor existing industries that are well connected politically at the expense of would-be entrepreneurs and start-ups offering more innovative solutions.
[…]
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March 7, 2019 1:56pm
gorse

Adern having another day off, not in the house today. Had a tough couple of days, it must be taking a toll.
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March 7, 2019 2:11pm
- Longknives
  
  She turned up to work two days in a row!
  I think that’s a record for the little Socialist Princess?
  Poor thing must be completely exhausted…
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:13pm
  - sooty
    
    What kindy did she unpack her crayons at today.
    
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    March 7, 2019 2:34pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She was Canterbury Uni with Shane Jones presenting Forestry scholarships to Maori and Female students
      https://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MjEyNTE/Breakfast%20with%20Dale/Scholarships-to-encourage-Maori-into-forest-tops
      
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      March 7, 2019 3:59pm
      - rangitoto
        
        What happened to his nephews? I though they were going to do all .the forestry
        
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        March 7, 2019 4:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Might have to be his nieces doing all the hard yakka.
        
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        March 7, 2019 5:36pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Good to see equity is pervading our country..
        
        Hang on, maybe not..
        
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        March 7, 2019 8:59pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    It will be interesting looking at her diary when it is released.
    The January edition is out. Apart from the trip to Davos she seemingly did f all.
    
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    March 7, 2019 3:19pm
  - DigNap15
    
    She’s probably reading my email about her pronunciation!
    
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    March 7, 2019 3:19pm
  - BeaB
    
    Part time prime minister. I’d love to see her diary. The real one, not the cooked-up version designed to show what a superwoman she is.
    
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    March 7, 2019 3:34pm
    - sooty
      
      Probably thought it was trips to the dairy!
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:06pm
- alien
  
  It is Thursday, no leader that I can recall goes on Thursday.
  
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  March 7, 2019 2:23pm
- Ultima
  
  She has gone to read the TWG report after commending Bridges on reading it yesterday.
  
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  March 7, 2019 3:37pm
MCos

Tweet of the day from the OzProtectionistParty

Social commentator @rowandean on being vilified by The Left: “leftists are always calling me stupid. Well if supporting Trump, opposing action on climate change and identifying cultural Marxism in our primary schools makes me stupid, call me the dumbest man in Australia”
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March 7, 2019 2:23pm
- fernglas
  
  He’s not so dumb that he can’t see how dumb he is, so he cannot be the dumbest man in Australia, and the competition for that role is pretty intense.
  
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  March 7, 2019 3:37pm
Captain Mainwaring

QT was interesting today. Judith firebombed the smarmy prick Twitford with every possible question except: “Why is KiwiBuild bailing Mike Greer out of his problems instead of building their own houses?”
Maybe she’s saving it up for next week.
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March 7, 2019 3:42pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny Captain watching so many weak links being exposed in Thursday QT as the opposition persist with repeating probing questions so frequently being deflected. Even Mallard is becoming agitated with several Ministers obfuscation that he prompts them to try again or admonishes them for blatant attempts to disrupt the House. Lol
  
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  March 7, 2019 11:26pm
Keeping Stock

Andrew Dickens from Newstalk ZB has closed off a column about the CGT and Cullen with the dreaded c-word:

What all this is really saying is that the supporters of the Capital Gains Tax are so few and far between that this government is now paying people to support it and that just sounds a teensy bit corrupt.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/andrew-dickens-afternoons/opinion/andrew-dickens-govt-has-lost-the-capital-gains-tax-battle/?fbclid=IwAR0IQHg07qRJviIWhk7MZgM-kzljbjaGbOFHEka6bhoW6pzbOiYqAtUIfXg

Dickens isn’t someone you’d normally associate with strong anti-Labour sentiment, but he’s right on the mark here. There’s a definite whiff of corruption in the air.
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March 7, 2019 3:51pm
- ABS
  
  Dont worry the Helen Clark Foundation will come out in support of a CGT just before the next election, all for free of course.
  
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  March 7, 2019 4:15pm
- wreck1080
  
  https://www.nbr.co.nz/analysis/capital-gains-tax-it-s-fair-enough
  
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  March 7, 2019 4:40pm
  - Tall Man
    
    How can it be fair when less than half the workers pay all of the tax.
    
    I suppose “fair” is relative…
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:52pm
DigNap15

I sent my email to Ardern asking why her pronunciation is so bad.
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March 7, 2019 5:31pm
- alien
  
  Why. People need to stop these silly attacks on how a person talks, dresses, walks, shakes hands and stick with the governments actions and policies. When you make it personal you lose
  
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  March 7, 2019 5:38pm
- Swifty
  
  Please don’t spoil all our fun.
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:08pm
- Tall Man
  
  And she said..”it’s your fucking ears dipshit”….
  
  Ain’t she luvley…..
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:52pm
Swifty

Surely up for the dumbest NZer ever:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12210569
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March 7, 2019 6:06pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  That’s a rough call Swifty considering stephie isn’t even here to defend his crown
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    That’s true, I forgot.
    
    Forgive me.
    
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    March 7, 2019 6:24pm
    - stigie
      
      Say your Three Hail Marys Swifty..?
      
      “Three Hail Marys is a traditional Roman Catholic devotional practice of reciting three Hail Marys as a petition for purity and other virtues. Believers recommend that it be prayed after waking in the morning, and before going to bed, following the examination of conscience at night.”
      
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      March 7, 2019 7:57pm
    - holysheet
      
      Thats ok.
      Stooopidboy still has his goats for company. It’s not as if we miss him and his crappy posts on here.
      
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      March 7, 2019 8:00pm
      - sooty
        
        Mr Nasty has more than stepped up to the resident troll position!
        He collects down ticks like a mad womans shit!
        Must be something like reverse engineering.
        
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        March 7, 2019 9:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  So far….
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:46pm
Swifty

$1062 per day.

Plus GST?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/111108500/grant-robertson-says-ongoing-payments-to-sir-michael-cullen-are-appropriate
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March 7, 2019 6:46pm
- alien
  
  Why would he be paid gst, no one gets paid gst in their wages, nor does it even mention such thing in the article you linked to.
  
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  March 7, 2019 7:13pm
- Tall Man
  
  Appropriate for what…
  
  Cunt of the month..apologies for those offended but…..
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:45pm
  - sooty
    
    So Robbo, does not support the CGT!
    Just reading between the lines!
    He’s putting distance between himself and Cullen!
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:54pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Wide white lines I surmise…..
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:40pm
oob

Labour suppressing the truth about China by shutting up Anne-Marie Brady:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12210617
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March 7, 2019 6:48pm
- alien
  
  I doubt she is an expert on anything. I live near some large Chinese owned farms, run by kiwis, and there is no testing of military weapons on them by the Chinese as she claims. She makes things up
  
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  March 7, 2019 6:56pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Those fuckin idiots!
  
  https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/23/im-being-watched-anne-marie-brady-the-china-critic-living-in-fear-of-beijing
  
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  March 7, 2019 7:17pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Sorry Downticker. I meant, those fecking idiots.
    Those who decided Brady shouldn’t submit to the Select Committee. The one person in NZ who can speak to the extent of the long tentacles of the CCP.
    
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    March 7, 2019 7:34pm
    - alien
      
      Right and you believe what she says because why? Ever gone onto a chin se owned farm in south Canterbury? You know those farms she claims the Chinese military are testing weapons on. Hint, I have, hint they are kiwi run and no weapons are tested on them. If there was the slightest chance that they were out government would be right over them. She is a liar that has never been able to supply any evidence on any of her claims
      
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      March 7, 2019 8:00pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Purely procedural, according to committee chair Raymond Huo. Huo is only outshone by Jian Yang in his zeal to promote in New Zealand the interests of the Chinese government, so of course he is the ideal chap to chair any parliamentary enquiry into foreign interference in our politics.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:27pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Whereas we really need a nut job like yourself leading the charge into stupidity…..
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:43pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Purely procedural,
    
    More like Labour kowtowing to the PRC.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:18pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      You seem to have missed the memo, Maggy. Labour and National are running in a keen competition to see which can abase themselves more in front of the Beijing leadership.
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:44pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        So you keep repeating MMA….
        but Jacinda assured us only a couple of weeks ago when the Huawei debacle blew that NZ has an independent foreign policy….
        
        I think she has since read her memo from her advisors and has started backtracking on being an independent little nation.
        
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        March 7, 2019 10:06pm
- Tall Man
  
  Possibly but more likely inuring themselves against a nutter.
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:41pm
Monique Watson

The Govt hasn’t paid for protection for Brady either but Canterbury University has.
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March 7, 2019 7:20pm
- alien
  
  And ask yourself why the government, neither key or Ardern did. Also ask yourself if anything she claimed was happening would our intelligence agencies and even military not be involved, the fact they aren’t should tell you how fake her claims are
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:02pm
Monique Watson

And why would the select committee do that! Talk about kicking an own goal.
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March 7, 2019 7:25pm
nasska

It’s a shame bus drivers don’t have to give that little speech at the beginning of journeys like pilots do.

“Good morning, my name is Bill and I am our driver today. The weather is shit and I hate you all. Enjoy your commute.”
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March 7, 2019 8:16pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Do you remember that Newman’s coaches ad from the 1970s:
  “This is your cleaner speaking…”
  
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  March 7, 2019 8:22pm
  - niggly
    
    https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/set/item/104 🙂
    
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    March 7, 2019 8:44pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      “real sheepskin”
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:01pm
    - Swifty
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/103679390/daughter-of-pioneer-nz-soap-actor-hunting-precious-art-he-sold-while-unwell
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/10111600/Mervyn-Glue-dies-at-88
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/10258080/Tributes-flow-for-Sticky-Glue
      
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      March 7, 2019 10:34pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes that’s because here in Tauranga our bus drivers don’t have anyone to talk to as they are empty!
  
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  March 8, 2019 8:12am
rightoverlabour

To all the fuckwit teachers out there supporting the student climate strike, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHX526NPbE
and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXHaSqpsVg

Unfortunately the second clip has the lunatic Mann rambling on in the beginning, but the rebuttals are worth waiting for.
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March 7, 2019 9:17pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That Mann that has just had “all” his Climategate emails released.
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/04/climategate-continues-the-mann-hockeystick-university-of-arizona-emails-are-now-public/
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:23pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Although his lawsuit rolls on, slowly, despite every step taken to delay any actual hearing of the substantive case.
    
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    March 7, 2019 9:37pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Which one of his lawsuits are you referring to?
      His one against National Reviewer?
      https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/michael-mann-lawsuit-national-review-first-amendment/
      
      or His one against Prof Tim Ball?
      https://principia-scientific.org/update-tim-balls-huge-courtroom-win-now-targets-michael-mann/
      
      or his one against Mark Steyn?
      https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/14/mann-vs-steyn-likely-to-head-to-supreme-court/
      
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      March 7, 2019 9:58pm
- alien
  
  Why be vulgar, why not just say to all the teachers. I personally do not believe in man made global warming. But hey I’d rather debate a person on it with maturity than attack someone like that. Really if people want to be taken seriously you need to act better, show respect and be mature. As soon as someone tries to debate with me online or in person like that I just walk away.
  
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  March 7, 2019 9:54pm
Kabull

So will Stuff maintain the science is ‘proven’ – or will they deliberately not acknowledge that this info has been released?
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March 7, 2019 9:46pm
DigNap15

If the climate change enthusiasts were serious they would be getting India and China and about 20 other countries to start reducing their populations.
Every new mouth is a new car, a new tv and a new fridge, power and petrol needed.
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March 8, 2019 8:11am
sooty

Friday. In that newspaper, Jacinda is advised to smile and wave as she can not answer any questions.
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March 8, 2019 8:41am
Inandout

It is said Julian Gender can’t ride her bike today because it is raining. Must use a vehicle.
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March 8, 2019 9:09am
- DigNap15
  
  None wants to ride their bike on a cold rainy day.
  Or in a town or city where the roads are hilly and dangerous.
  
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  March 8, 2019 12:11pm
Wired-one

I know there were many here who voted for Winston at the last election. NZFirst has a survey on their website asking about the proposed CGT. It is obvious by the questions that Winston is going to flip on this policy…oh the irony and hypocrisy, so make your feelings heard people. Only takes five minutes.
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